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Are the rumors true - will Google’s email clients ever support responsive techniques? And why do Yahoo, Outlook.com and others render our email campaigns so differently? We went behind the scenes at Microsoft to bring you the answers.

Has there been a live event, talk or workshop that’s really helped you as an email marketer or designer? Where do you go to learn more, get inspired and network with like-minded people in our industry? We’ve listed some of the shows that have stood out to us - take a look, then let us know your favorite events.

What’s in your email design toolkit? We asked some of the industry’s most notable coders - from Atlassian, Litmus, Campaign Monitor and more - to show us their setup and tell us how each of their “must haves” help them create exceptional email campaigns.

After you’ve seen how they do it, let us know what apps and resources have helped you!

What’s in store for email designers and our campaigns, following today’s release of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Watch? Should we all change our media queries in response to Apple’s new device resolutions?

Read on for a balanced take on whether our responsive email designs are now in need of an update, plus how the “handoff” behavior introduced by Watch could change the ways our subscribers read and interact with our campaigns.

Could the device on your wrist soon be the first place where you check your email? And, will we soon be optimizing our campaigns for the new forms of interaction that wearable technology will bring? We look at the implications on email designers and marketers - and invite you to help us predict what will happen when smartwatches and other wearable devices become the norm.

It’s completely understandable and many marketers do. So in this post, we wanted to share how we create and send our email newsletter to over 175,000 subscribers in the hope you’ll take away some ideas you can implement into your own process.

Do your campaigns need to lighten up a bit? We look at how Basecamp uses a mix of friendly copy, illustration and a good mobile experience to make a great impression on their customers. Take a look at their updated campaign for inspiration.

Could your email newsletters do with a boost? Adam Roberts at Sitepoint walked us through the process of redesigning their ultra-minimal templates - and along the way, showed us how even small changes can have a large impact on your campaign results. You’ll be sure to find inspiration for your next A/B test, too!

Are Google’s Gmail and Google Apps email clients one and the same? Not if you use CSS styles in your newsletters. We looked at the differences and outline how to avoid common pitfalls when testing your campaigns.

What words can lift your open rates? We looked at the results from 3,941,735,015 recipients in 360,872 campaigns and 11,207 lists, to narrow down the 15 most effective words that can feature at the beginning and end of a subject line. Read on to see what they are, plus what you can learn from them.